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Cañon City Tigers have better state performances on Day 2

Trenton Stringari during the Class 4A state track and field meet at Jeffco Stadium in Lakewood on Friday. (Brandon Hopper / Daily Record)

Lakewood — That's better.

Day 1 had Tigers coach Jordan Gilge feeling in a funk. It wasn't awful, but it wasn't what the Tigers had gotten used to.

Maybe it's because they were spoiled last season when graduate Zac McCoy won multiple state championships, and that they had titles the previous year as well. Whatever it was, Gilge didn't like the new feeling.

"I don't want to say yesterday was disappointing, but at the end I did feel a little blah," Gilge said. "We could've done better.

"You think it's going to happen every time you go to state," he said as the day was winding down Friday at the Class 4A state track and field meet at Jeffco Stadium. "It didn't happen yesterday. ... Today we got more."

Henry Elliott during the Class 4A state track and field meet at Jeffco Stadium in Lakewood on Friday. (Brandon Hopper / Daily Record)

A lot more.

Aubrey Till finished fourth in the 3,200-meter run after being seeded to finish sixth. And Trenton Stringari won his 300-meter hurdles heat and qualified second overall.

"I didn't have a great start, but I made up for it on the back stretch over here," Stringari said. "A PR is a PR, so I'm happy with it."

After the top two Tigers, it was a bit of a drop off, but that was enough to hold the team's spirits high.

Katie Till took 14th in the 800-meter, an improvement from her 15th seed.

Henry Elliott cleared 5 feet, 11 inches, but didn't place in the top nine.

The girls 4x400-meter relay team of Lisa VanGalder, Katie Till, Hannah Meek, and Ellie Enderle took 14th place and missed the finals.

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The boys team also missed the finals. Tyler Templeton, Dacian Sullivan, Bradley Riva and Stringari took 18th.

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